# K2V: Generative Keyframing For Physically Plausible Video Generation

**Authors:** Felix O'Mahony, Daniel Olmeda Reino, Roberto Cipolla, Ayush Tewari  
**Published:** 12 Nov 2026  
**Links:** [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.17324) · [PDF](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.17324) · [This page](https://omen-bit.github.io/ai-paper-daily/paper/2611.17324.html)

## Abstract

Video diffusion models are able to generate samples with high-quality appearance and textural qualities. However, content produced by these methods is known to exhibit significant physical errors. This is because, in a classical video generation setting, all physical reasoning must take place simultaneously and exclusively within the diffusion process.We propose to resolve these issues by redistributing the task of physical reasoning onto a language model-backed keyframe generation module, which allows for explicit reasoning in language, and fine-grained control over the appearance of the video at important moments in the video. We then condition a video generation model with these keyframes, reducing the role of the diffusion model to the simpler task of interpolating between physically-correct intermediate states, rather than inferring an entire sequence with diffusion. Results demonstrate that our approach significantly outperforms existing approaches, achieving state-of-the-art performance on the Physics-IQ Verified benchmark and PhyGenBench.

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